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Christer Fuglesang

1957 - Today

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Arne Christer Fuglesang (born 18 March 1957) is a Swedish physicist and an ESA astronaut. He was first launched aboard the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission on 10 December 2006, making him the first Swedish citizen in space. Married with three children, he was a Fellow at CERN and taught mathematics at the Royal Institute of Technology before being selected to join the European Astronaut Corps in 1992. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christer Fuglesang has received more than 250,604 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Christer Fuglesang is the 143rd most popular astronaut (up from 165th in 2019), the 599th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 709th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Astronaut.

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  • 250k

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  • 56.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Christer Fuglesang ranks 143 out of 556. Before him are Roberta Bondar, Mae Jemison, Ulf Merbold, Kenneth Cockrell, Yuri Gidzenko, and Wubbo Ockels. After him are Viktor Savinykh, William R. Pogue, Vladimir Solovyov, Valeri Tokarev, Pavel Vinogradov, and Edward Gibson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Christer Fuglesang ranks 200. Before him are Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Bojan Križaj, David Crane, K. Sivan, Lothaire Bluteau, and Mona Simpson. After him are Steve Davis, Ioannis Sarmas, Len Blavatnik, Jackie Shroff, Lori Singer, and Denis Leary.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Christer Fuglesang ranks 599 out of 1,879. Before him are Lina Sandell (1832), Olle Anderberg (1919), Carl Westergren (1895), Hasse Ekman (1915), Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken (1626), and Gillis Bildt (1820). After him are Gustav Wetterström (1911), Ludvig Norman (1831), Robert Themptander (1844), Harald Edelstam (1913), Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718), and Bo Svenson (1941).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In Sweden

Among astronauts born in Sweden, Christer Fuglesang ranks 1. 

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